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Most marketers make some effort to take advantage of the big buying season, but have your initiatives started getting more lukewarm than a neglected cup of hot cocoa? This season, to really maximize your revenue, freshen up your campaigns by adding some new twists to your traditional holiday marketing initiatives.

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Teradata is recognized for vision, innovation and broad set of marketing capabilities. The 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Marketing Management is an invaluable resource with insights that can help you execute your marketing initiatives.

If you’re a sales manager, you’re probably feeling stuck in the middle. On one hand, you have a huge employee engagement movement going on with HR departments focusing on developing leaders and recognizing achievements with substantial budgets. On the other side, marketing departments are using technology and creativity (and also large budgets) to connect with and educate customers about their products, solutions and brands.
The trend is to challenge every dollar spent on sales compensation to maximize ROI. HR departments are treating salespeople like all other employees. And customers are going online to avoid anyone with sales in their title.
Based on our research and applications we see in our customers’ leading sales initiatives, if you’re a sales manager, you are trying to maximize results out of your sales team by increasing your teams engagement to meet company goals. Download this white paper to see which eight trends you should consider as you strategize for the year.

With a new year upon us, it's time to put out Nostradamus hat on and give our best predictions for 2017. It's time for a fresh perspective as you look at your marketing plans and /make sure your initiatives are aligned for success. Our digital marketing gurus have pulled insights and trends together to give you insider secrets on digital marketing and how can you get a leg up on your competition. Why? Because we dig digital, and want to spread the love.

As you plan for 2012, use the seven email marketing trends to guide your marketing initiatives. Download Net Atlantic's white paper to learn more about how to optimize your email marketing for the modern marketing era.

Today, many organizations struggle to optimize online and offline marketing campaigns across an ever growing number of new marketing channels. CMOs are increasingly accountable for demonstrating Return on Marketing Investments (ROMI) across channels and initiatives. Despite an abundance of campaign management technologies (enterprise marketing management, lead management, CRM, marketing automation, email marketing and a variety of point solutions) marketing departments still struggle with campaign performance, campaign workflow, and campaign management; particularly across multiple marketing channels.

Adobe has released the results to the 2012 Digital Marketing Optimization Survey, where over 1700 global digital marketers across major industries offered insights into plans for driving revenue and growth in the coming year. With an increasing portion of marketing spend shifting to digital channels, it's more critical than ever to measure online marketing programs and initiatives to help identify where you can raise conversions and add to the bottom line.

This Deep Dive analyst report looks at the experiences of more than 75 retailers and consumer brands that have outperformed their industry peers with respect to their mobile marketing initiatives. It explains that much of this improvement can be attributed to the notion of Mobile Relationship Management.

Long ago dubbed the 'killer app', email marketing has now reached the height of its potential and is poised to assume its place as the medium of choice for maintaining customer relationships. In fact, despite the threat of spam, marketers are continuing to turn to email marketing initiatives - with impressive results. Email marketing continues to be the most affordable, efficient and personalized way to connect with clients and future prospects.

Email marketing provides a lot more flexibility as the delivery schedule isn't dependent on outside factors. However, just because email gives you instant access to your subscribers doesn't mean you can email them impulsively or impetuously. Your emails must follow a plan that is as well thought-out and deliberate as all of your other marketing initiatives in order to remain effective.

Struggling to prove social ROI? The Bazaarvoice whitepaper Real ROI from Social in 5 Steps shows you how the world’s most successful brands and retailers are capturing results and proving true social ROI.

What happens to the leads your marketing department generates from initiatives such as white-paper downloads, referrals and trade-show business-card drops? According to research firm MarketingSherpa, 12.5 percent are genuine leads, ready or willing to buy and get moved into the sales cycle, while 17.5 percent get discarded right away because they clearly didn’t qualify or couldn’t be verified. Learn more today!

Implementing a surprise and delight strategy is an ideal way to breathe new life into multichannel loyalty marketing initiatives. To be effective, these activities should be part of a structured marketing program.

Use this guide to make your transition to Agile marketing as smooth and as simple as possible
Agile is a big transition. Before you dive in, it’s important to take some initial steps to increase the likelihood of a smooth and successful transition.
This guide helps marketing teams take the right steps needed to adopt an Agile marketing process. Read this guide and:
• Get familiar with Agile terminology
• Learn 6 steps to transition to Agile
• Learn how to determine team member’s availability
Stop living in the past and start living in Agile. Download the guide today!
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Sneak Peek
We would focus on a project at a time, and that did not allow us to be adaptable or flexible to handle new initiatives. When an urgent project came along, the team would either stop what it was doing to do the new project or try to work on both simultaneously with the same resources. These shifts were stressful and sapped productivity. But the short, iterative work

Employee advocates are your brand’s best resource to expand existing marketing programs. In fact, content shared by employees on social networks receives 8x the engagement of content on a brand’s own channel.
By powering employees to experience, create and share authentic content, brands can increase social engagement, reach new customers, and drive more web traffic.
Hear DeShelia Spann, Digital Marketing Strategist at Eaton, share how Eaton is mobilizing their employees to promote marketing initiatives and share brand content.

Kodak's community-which boasts over 2,600 members to date-has been effective in combining quantitative and qualitative research initiatives, resulting in a more comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior, trends, and demand, which the company continues to use to its advantage. In addition to evaluating existing products and marketing initiatives, it has helped to identify new product and marketing opportunities through analysis of how members shop.

In this guide you will learn how to collect and deliver meaningful dead data, cultivate leads beyond the top of the funnel, uncover opportunities within channels already in place, and create a larger impact with your email marketing initiatives

In this comprehensive 17-page guide from Smart Selling Tools, you will learn tips and techniques to help you:.Collect and Deliver Meaningful Lead Data
.Cultivate Leads Beyond the Top of the Funnel
.Uncover Opportunities Within Channels Already in Place
.Create a Larger Impact with Your Email Marketing Initiatives
The top 10 strategies for each category, plus a marketing tools success checklist is also included.

How will ensure your marketing initiatives’ success in 2016? Join us for a TED-style webinar on Wednesday, December 16, at 1:00 p.m. ET, with marketing thought leaders Ann Handley, Jay Baer, Joe Staples, and Mark Schaefer as they provide forward-looking recommendations on how marketing managers and executives can confront and overcome the challenges of the coming year.
How your marketing team works is as important as what they’re working on. The winners in 2016 will be those teams who optimize their team’s work processes and tools for maximum creativity, efficiency, and reactivity. This webinar promises tips and tricks on how to build this kind of high-performing marketing team, including:
• How to better plan, prioritize, and manage your work for a successful 2016
• Trends that impact the way marketers work and their ability to succeed
• How to manage your teams to understand the full scope of work and make data-driven decisions

In this Q&A, you will learn:
- The importance customer data plays in loyalty programs
- Why engagement is a critical element in loyalty strategies today
- What an omnichannel approach means for most brands
- How technology will be a driving force for loyalty and other marketing initiatives
- And much more!